What a gorgeous cutie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 8/10 (9 August 2005)

OK, I might be biased by my general appreciation of Michael Bay Action movies, my major (biology/genetics) and my weakness for new hot young actresses, but this movie totally rocked! You know, I usually don't expect too much logic in this kind of movies especially in the action sequences, and some might say in this case the movie was flawed (the falling R), but in my opinion, that didn't hurt too much. One could argue that the movie itself was divided into two major parts: The first part: "Decontamination facility"? , the second part: Run, my clones run! The first part really was kind of cool, I just love it when movies start this strange, you don't know what's really going on and what's the deal, and one after another, you start to realize what's it all about. I think it would have been even cooler if the movie hadn't been propagated and hyped like "dealing with the cloning issue", so no one would have known in the first place what this strange facility was all about, but it was too obvious from the trailers and the ads, otherwise it would have accounted for a similarly ingenious twist like in Fight club or Six sense, just not in the end of the movie, but in the middle. OK, already hear the critics, arguing that it all doesn't make any sense to put up so much fuse just to keep "living organ donors" "happy", but I think most have to admit, a great idea very well suited for a major blockbuster movie. In some ways, it reminds me of the Matrix (1, of course!!), just that it were "living power plant donors" there and admittedly, constructing the matrix itself is a lot of fuse as well! OK, and in the second part, Michael Bay plays it full, unfolding action to the max, well paced and placed after the suspense-like first part. As I've already mentioned, you could criticize some scenes, like why didn't the truck driver notice losing his over-sized handle bars (causing a major traffic pandemonium, by the way) and stop his vehicle immediately or why is everything in 2019 so mixed, hyper-modern hover-crafts and monorails (From Ogdenville or North Haverbrook? ;-) vs. old truck stops including bad 80s rock and recent cars? And maybe they could have taken some new (and even hotter, yummy!!!!) TV-ads from Scarlett Johanson customized especially for the ambient of the movie instead of the regular from the real life. Well, Scarlett is definitely one of the biggest pluses of the movie, at least for me, but I might be too biased here (see title of my comment) so I better won't even try to judge on her acting. I think all other actors did a good job and were well-suited for the movie, man, didn't realize that the doctor was Boromir until my friends told me after the movie, embarrassing! Of course, the obligate final end fight between the doctor (who comes ALONE without security) and Ewan, partly bare-handed (oh man!) is a little, well, cheesy but what do you expect, action flick with big boss fight in the end, that's how it's got to be I guess, it's Michael Bay ! I still wonder why the doctor, the boss and initiator of it all, bothered to play the psychiatrist of his "products", I think he should have enough trouble with the medicine aspect and the PR, the whole facility must be so damn expensive that a fake psychologist would not make a huge difference!